Kimberly Lain
**** ********* ****** ( San Jose, CA 95134 408-***-**** (
************@*********.***
Objective and Overview
Accounting Manager with exceptional analytical, planning and management
skills is searching for a full-time employment opportunity in a growing
company. A proven energetic leader who can build teams, develop and
execute project plans with excellent results.
Extensive experience in:
- Month-End Closes, Journal Entries, and Reconciliations
- GAAP and IFRS compliance, monitoring, implementation and policy review
- Budgeting, Forecasting, and Planning
- Financial Modeling & Costing
- Contract Negotiation - Leases, Bonds and Pensions
- Financial System Analysis, Designing, Integrations
- Metrics and Scorecard Development
- Operations Management
Professional Experience
Accounting and Operations Management
- Cut material costs by 20% for a $17M residential contract through
identifying and negotiating vendor contracts with major construction
suppliers.
- Managed day-to-day finance and accounting functions to ensure
strategic and tactical planning was implemented.
- Payroll processing on multiple platforms for 250+ employee bi-weekly
runs.
- Tracked all job and company costs, analyzed reporting anomalies to
management for corrective action, assisted accountants with tax
preparation, managing A/P, A/R, P/R, and worked with corporate and tax
attorneys, investors, and CPAs as required.
- Identify, prioritize, and execute work streams required to support
platform strategies, and special projects.
- Work within cross-functional and cross-regional project teams to solve
corporate business problems.
- Support the prioritization of corporate initiatives, and evaluate
investment opportunities for their strategic and financial value.
- ISO 9000 operational elements for those new markets, including
processes, procedures, training, pricing, documentation, marketing,
sales.
- Instituted operational controls and reporting structures to ensure the
attainment of corporate milestones.
- Monitored internal controls and addressed control weaknesses through
process changes.
Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting
- Over 20 years of progressive experience spanning financial analysis,
budgeting, forecasting, and policy/procedure implementation within ISO
compliant environments.
- Planned, organized and directed the formulation, presentation and
administration of the company-wide expense budget resulting in strict
fiscal controls to drive behavior and reduce costs.
- Develop business cases in support of product development investment
decisions.
- Updated and managed monthly and quarterly forecasts/actuals of job
cost, consolidated financial statements, and variance analysis to
provide recommendations of performance and future
under/overstatements.
- Performed general accounting functions, monthly capital expenditures,
annual audit, tax returns budget management, reconciliations and
consolidations.
Modeling and Analysis
- Analytical problem solver with a proven track record of cutting costs,
establishing lucrative partnerships, and driving revenue growth.
- Developed a high quality infrastructure of quantitative analysis tools
and data to enable consistent, timely and efficient analysis of
corporate metrics, costs, margins, and budgets.
- Exercised complex monetization models to drive sales and marketing
efforts. Developed marketing strategic and tactical plan supported by
business/financial analysis.
- Established and maintained product performance metrics.
- Created scenario-based business modeling.
- Executed ROI models utilizing multiple revenue streams and go-to-
market strategies.
- Business audit and financial analysis of operational disposition;
presentations to board of directors and shareholders.
- Used advanced financial skills to analyze business units and
acquisition candidates resulting in invest versus divest
recommendations.
- Created and implemented an order model providing an objective
methodology for ordering printed material reducing waste, investment
and carrying costs.
Financial Systems Implementation
- Cut material costs by 20% for a $17M contract through negotiating
vendor contracts terms
- Preparation, rollout and setup of new financial system
implementations.
- Developed a comprehensive corporate financial processing system
function from inception through full lifecycle.
Professional Experience
Broadcaster Media, Sr. Director of Finance 2008-2010
ITI, Sr. Business Development Manager 2006-2008
InFreeDA Inc. Sr. Director of Finance 2005-2006
Building Higher, Inc., Operations Managing Director 2001-2004
Diligent Insurance, Chief Financial Officer 1986-2001
Hunter Systems, Inc., Controller 1984-1986
Ford Aerospace, Financial Analyst 1982-1984
Education
Certificate of Advanced Accounting Proficiency, Santa Clara University -
Leavey School of Business
B.S.B.A., University Of Phoenix
CPA Candidate
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Technical Skills
Intuit MasterBuilder, Intuit QuickBooks Pro and Enterprise versions, MS
Office Suite - Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio
(advanced proficiency), Great Plains ERP, Crystal Reports, AMS, ADP,
Paychex, Intuit online and manual payroll processing, SalesForce, ACT!,
Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Acrobat Professional
9.0.
Industry Experience
. Construction
. International Non-Profits
. Traditional, Mobile, and Online Advertising
. Professional Services, outsourcing
. SAAS
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